Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.9 17/40] ASoC: topology: Fix route memory corruption

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 03:00:53AM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 04:42:04PM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:

> > Should this be cherry-pick of both (they should apply cleanly):
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/sound/soc/soc-topology.c?id=e0e7bc2cbee93778c4ad7d9a792d425ffb5af6f7
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/sound/soc/soc-topology.c?id=0298f51652be47b79780833e0b63194e1231fa34
> > or just the second one adjusted to apply for stable trees?

> I think having commit with memory corruption fix is more important to
> stable kernels than not having the code cleanup commit. So, I would
> suggest stable policy to be changed a bit, and minor commits like this
> code cleanup, be allowed in stable if they are dependence of bug fixing
> commits.

> Additionally, these neutral commits just make stable trees become closer
> to mainline trees (which allows more bug fix commits to be applied
> cleanly).

The reason I nacked the cleanup commit was just that there was no
indication that it was a dependency or anything, it just looked like
standard stuff with not reviewing bot output.

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